Biorefinery build up

02.03.2012

Lappeenranta – Finnish paper industry major UPM plans to invest in an industry-scale biorefinery producing biofuels from crude tall oil, a by-product of the wood pulp manufacturing process. UPM’s total investment will amount to approximately €150m. Construction of the bio­refinery will begin in the summer of 2012 at UPM’s Kaukas mill site and be completed in 2014.

Helsinki/San Diego – A newly discovered plant gene is centrally involved in the regulation of CO2 uptake for photosynthesis and water evaporation in plants. The discovery of the slac-1 gene can aid in the development of...

Turku – In mid-January, the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland signed a research agreement with Roche Diagnostics GmbH regarding studies of one of the company’s cancer drugs. The research will be conducted by VTT...

Helsinki – The Academy of Finland started its Sustainable Energy Research Programme (SusEn) in January. Running until 2011, the programme aims to generate new and innovative scientific knowledge in energy technology, energy...

Helsinki – The Academy of Finland Research Council for Biosciences and Environment has contributed roughly a30 million to help support research. The academy announced in October that it is now going to fund more projects than...

Brussels/Berlin/Helsinki – Germany’s and Finnland’s agriculture ministers have announced they would like to expand the current labelling of genetically modified (GM) food to eggs, milk and meat from animals fed with GM crops....

Tampere – The Regea Institute of Regenerative Medicine located at the University of Tampere has received € 144,000 for stem cell research from a private donor who wishes to remain anonymous. The money will provide four years...

Helsinki – In its budget for 2007, the Finnish government has announced an increase in funding for Research and Development by a60 million to a total amount of a1.73 billion. The increases are going to the organisations that...

Helsinki – Under the roof of the Baltic See network ScanBalt a project known as ‘CompetenceRegion’ has now finalized a mapping report to show the life sciences landscape in the 24 Nordic Bioregions represented in ScanBalt....

Helsinki – The Finnish forest-based industry is expecting a growing demand for biomass-based non-food products and the government aims to strengthen research in this area. This was the conclusion being drawn at the “European...

The Academy of Finland and Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technolgy and Innovation, have together launched the FiDiPro program to bring top researchers from abroad to Finland. The first 24 professors have already been...